17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Sunday, June 2, 1912:Went to Sunday School this afternoon. Had such a time to know when to go as the clock had stopped. As a result I got there late.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
It took more effort to know what the time was in the days before electric and battery-operated clocks. Someone must have forgotten to wind (or pull the weights on) the clock.
Here are the answers to the Brain Bothers that I posted yesterday.
Brain Bothers
Transform a MULE to a PONY in four changes, one letter at a time, without transposing.
Answer: Mule, mole, pole, pone, pony
(Farm Journal, January and March, 1912)
2. What number is divisible by 2,3,4,5, and 6, with a remainder of 1 in each instance, but is divisible by 7 without a remainder?
Answer: 301
(Farm Journal, March and May, 1912)
3. Substitute a letter in the name of an American president, and make something good to eat. Do the same with an American poet with the same result.
Answer:
Taft: Tart
Poe: Pie
(Farm Journal, May and July, 1912)
ohhh, I see where I went wrong with the one I did. I thought I must be missing something.
It’s funny how little things can affect how they are solved.That’s why there’re brain teasers. 🙂